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title: So they very thankfully promised to fulfil the Cat’s conditions, and… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So they very thankfully promised to fulfil the Cat’s conditions, and agreed that they would file past her and make a salaam twice every day. Who acts: Mice, Cat. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., with its dependency 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 11

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So they very thankfully promised to fulfil the Cat’s conditions, and agreed that they would file past her and make a salaam twice every day.

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**Who acts:** Mice, Cat · **What happens:** promise, fulfil, agree, file, make, condition · **To what, where:** Mice, conditions, salaam

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mice, Cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:6:11
# text = So they very thankfully promised to fulfil the Cat’s conditions, and agreed that they would file past her and make a salaam twice every day.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	thankfully	thankfully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	file	file	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	past	past	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	salaam	salaam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle · passive |  | Mice *= mouse* |  |  |  | thankfully *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fulfil** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the Cat's conditions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **file** *not said to happen* | would | Mice *= mouse* |  |  |  |  | past Cat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme past she=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive | Mice *= mouse* *not said here* | a salaam |  |  | day | twice *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset salaam=Product |
| 6 | **condition** |  | the Cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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